Over 500,000 people in the United States and over 8 million people worldwide are dying from cancer every year. As people live longer, the incidence of cancer is rising worldwide, and the disease is expected to strike over 20 million people annually by 2030.
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
History and Overview of Metastasis
Primary Tumor Growth and Neoangiogenesis
EMT / Invasion / Intravasation
Survival in the Circulation and Extravasation
Dormancy and Secondary Tumor Growth
Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Metastasis
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TOP REVIEWS FROM UNDERSTANDING CANCER METASTASIS
It's a very thorough course. It not only is informative but is very insightful. I shall recommend this course to every individual who is curious to know more about cancer.
This course is completely informative and easily understandable for the beginners especially. Thanks to Coursera and John Hopkins University for the wonderful course.
One of the best courses that I took! I am a premed student majoring in biology and I like the way the course was designed. They easily explained complex terms and processes.
Good course, but why researchers whant to hold/control cancer in a human and not rebuild the destroyed mechanisms of autoregul;ation by genetic engeneering for example? That would be true cure.
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